1 TV anchor survives: Islamabad police on Monday defused a bomb planted under the car of a prominent Pakistani TV anchor threatened by the Taliban for his coverage of a schoolgirl shot by the militants, police said. The Pakistani Taliban threatened journalists last month over their critical coverage of an assassination attempt against Malala Yousufzai, a 15-year-old student activist who was shot in the head by the militants in the northwest Swat Valley. The Taliban targeted Malala for criticizing the militant group and promoting secular girls' education, which is opposed by the Islamist extremists. She is recovering in Britain.

3 Beauty queen killed: Officials say a 20-year-old state beauty queen has been killed in northern Mexico during a running gunbattle between soldiers and the gang of drug traffickers she was traveling with. The prosecutor of the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa says the body of Maria Susana Flores Gamez has been turned over to relatives for burial. She was voted the 2012 Woman of Sinaloa in a beauty pageant in February.

4 Deadly fire: Fourteen people were killed and eight injured Monday when a fire broke out at a workshop for people with disabilities in Germany's Black Forest region of Titisee-Neustadt, authorities said. The cause of the fire was not immediately known, police said.

5 Libel law: Italy's Senate has killed a proposed law that was hotly contested for maintaining a jail penalty against journalists convicted of libel, while imposing only fines for their editors. The Italian journalists union called off a national strike Monday but was demonstrating to press its campaign to decriminalize libel altogether. Parliament's efforts to do that were circumvented by right-wing lawmakers' apparent moves to protect an editor who was sentenced to 14 months for libel under a rarely enforced Fascist-era law that allows a six-year sentence. They changed the draft to impose a one-year jail sentence on journalists while lowering the penalty for editors to $65,000.

6 Nazi charges: A 91-year-old former member of the Nazis' Waffen SS has been charged with murder in the 1944 slaying of a Dutch resistance fighter who was allegedly executed shortly after he was captured, prosecutors said Monday. Dutch-born Siert Bruins, who is now German, already served time in the 1980s for the wartime murder of two Dutch Jews. Dortmund prosecutor Andreas Brendel said the suspect is now accused of killing resistance fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in 1944 in northern Netherlands.

7 No school: Teachers in violence-racked Pattani province in southern Thailand said Monday that they are shutting down all 332 primary schools indefinitely until the government can guarantee their safety from attacks by Muslim insurgents. Pattani is one of only three Muslim-majority provinces in Buddhist-dominated Thailand. More than 5,000 people have been killed since an Islamist insurgency flared in 2004.